The following information was posted on the Beijing-based Tibetan writer Woeser’s blog (hosted outside of China): March 10th 500 monks from Drepong Monastery joined the peaceful demonstration. They were beaten and targeted...
Read MoreThe Tibet provincial government just stopped issuing travel permits to individual international visitors. From Bloomberg. Chinese authorities discouraged tour groups from visiting Tibet, saying pro-independence activists damaged...
Read MoreAs Chinese authorities reportedly beef up the military presence in Tibetan regions out west, efforts are being made to have Lhasa return to some semblance of normalcy. Nevertheless, sporadic reports of ongoing protests are still...
Read MoreThe New York Times posted an article that looks at the long-term policy failures that may have contributed to the unrest in Tibet: “…To many Tibetans and their sympathizers, the weeklong uprising against Chinese rule...
Read MoreHoward French reposted some of the text of a New York Review of Books article from December 19, 2007: Wang Lixiong, who is one of the very few Chinese intellectuals to have met the Dalai Lama, told me that Tibetans have no faith...
Read MoreUpdate to previous post, March 18, 2008 (to be updated throughout the day): According to a Tibet official, 100 people have turned themselves into police after riots rocked the region’s capital of Lhasa. Reuters reports:...
Read MoreDeutsche Welle has collated various excerpts from European editorials that address the upcoming Beijing Olympics in relation to China’s violent suppression of Tibetan protesters: Rome’s La Repubblica: “Western...
Read MoreUpdate, March 17, 2008: The deadline for Tibetan protesters to surrender to Chinese police has passed, reports the BBC. The Times (London) is reporting that the Chinese army paraded dozens of handcuffed prisoners, their heads...
Read MoreUPDATE (March 16): The Economist has an eyewitness account from their correspondent in Lhasa: After hours of rioting on March 14th, a ring of troops was deployed around the large Tibetan quarter during the night. The next day...
Read MoreUpdate (March 16): The Guardian is reporting from Xining, Qinghai, that protests have spread in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces: In Aba county, Sichuan province, protesters attacked a police station with petrol bombs and fought...
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